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His speed score is literally one of the best in this WR class.

36” vert and 115” broad jump so probably about the same catch radius if not worse than Higgins.

He definitely had some relatively poor QB play but he also just didn’t catch the ball when it was thrown well. Worst true catch % in the class and one of the highest drop %. Obviously a fantastic athlete though.

Plus-side: he must have been flying for the last 30 to start that slow and finish as well as he did.

I don't expect us to bring in another TE after restructuring Kroft but we'll see.

Isn't that kind of the point though? If all the WRs are covered and Allen defaults to giving Duke the chance because he thinks he has the best chance to make a play on the ball; that's one of the things everyone seems to want to get addressed and Higgins would be that guy for us but likely much much better than Duke.

If we're looking to add a vet to the RB room like we had in Gore last year, Dion makes a lot of sense. Familiar with Daboll (I think they were both in NE at the same time?) and would give us the 3rd down back we need and allow us to focus on just getting a good RB of any type.

I don’t think we really know that for sure. Daboll’s first year was certainly a vertical based offense. It couldn’t be a part of it in year 2 because of how bad Allen threw the ball down the field throughout the year. The offense is still evolving, as is the QB orchestrating it and all of the skill position guys. Edit: Just for the record, like Yolo, I'm not banging the table for Higgins. I just think he's one of many good options for us at the WR position depending on what Beane/Daboll are looking for. If they want a big guy that can win down the field and be a go-to guy in big situations, he's arguably the best option for that.

A 4.54 isn’t a lumbering time. He’s literally in like the 83rd-86th percentile for height adjusted speed score.

Obviously depends on what exactly you do for work, but in my case and many of my other friends cases, we've been instructed to work from home until further notice.

That's fair. Higgins did pretty much match DeAndre Hopkins in terms of athleticism as well as some of his advanced metrics though (and I'm sure some other talented WRs as well). I'll understand if people are scared off by his vert and stuff but to me, if you liked Higgins as a prospect before or were hesitant only due to thinking he might be 4.6-4.7 speed, you should still like him now. If you think we just need a different type of WR, someone that makes their living more on underneath routes and creating yards after the catch, that's fine too. Higgins is better in terms of YAC than he gets credit for, but he's certainly not the kind of quick twitch athlete that someone like Ruggs is for example. Ultimately I think it comes down to what you think Buffalo needs in the WR room. For me, I think we need a guy that can take a screen pass, juke a bunch of people, and bust out a 40 yard gain, and I also think we need a red zone target/one more vertical threat. We should be drafting two WRs in this class IMO, one to address each of those needs (or if you get lucky, you can get a guy that fills both those needs too). Higgins undoubtedly is an option to address the latter need IMO.

I don't really agree with any of that tbh. I think he's at worst adequate in terms of releasing, has some of the best hands in the class, and shockingly good in terms of YAC ability.

There was...he slipped during it though so it's likely going to be a terrible time if he doesn't re-do it, but ultimately teams won't read much into it in that case.

They'll generally post the fastest time as the "official" one so I would expect it to end up being 4.43-4.46 range.

Sounds like it'll probably be reported as an "official" 4.43 or somewhere around there when it's all said and done. Basically matched what NFL teams expected of him today, but might lead to some of the media guys sliding him back up their draft boards a bit as they seemed to question his speed more than the NFL did.

For sure. If you add .06 to his time (which I think is generally the average that Pro Day times are off by relative to Combine times), I think you likely end up somewhere around the upper 80s to lower 90s still. Depends on what his "official" Pro Day time is announced at. Michael Pittman at roughly the same size ran 4.52 and is 93rd percentile.

The broad jump and vert will probably put him somewhere around the 30th-40th percentile among NFL WRs in terms of "burst score". The 4.45-4.50 40 time is smack dab where NFL teams expected him to test and well above what most of the #DraftTwitter world expected. I imagine his speed score will be somewhere around the 90th-95th percentile.

FWIW one of the Clemson message boards is saying the unofficial times are 4.43 and 4.52.

Same guy says 4.43 on his 2nd run.

Short answer is I'd rather pay Murphy because I know I can cut him at any moment and get that money back. But the real answer is, how about neither? We can bring in better pass rushers for the same or less money than both of them.

Yes.

Once this gets cancelled, I will officially not acknowledge anyone that says Syracuse didn't make the tournament. We will never know! But seriously, I expect this and all sporting events to be cancelled soon.

You’re looking at the cases today. The doctors are trying to project years down the road with this thing. For example, getting the swine flu is common today. The question that should be asked in conjunction with “how many infected?” is “how lethal will it still be at that point?” These things tend to become less dangerous the longer they’re in circulation due both to vaccines being developed as well as simply the way viruses tend to evolve. They tend to get weaker over time as basically the cost of becoming more contagious.

It’s probably safest to assume it’s everywhere now since we didn’t even start looking for it until it had been here for a month and didn’t start doing anything about it for much longer. It’s far more widespread than we currently know.

Again, if you eliminate Waddle from the math, nothing changes. Patriots get the same 4 comp picks they got and Bills still get 0. See the link below. The Waddle signing didn’t impact either team’s comp picks. Patriots didn’t get one for Rowe even though they should have so Waddle ultimately didn’t matter for them. And the Bills were nowhere near getting a pick. https://overthecap.com/compensatory-draft-picks-cancellation-chart/